How to install Poppler on Windows?
The most recent version of ScraperWiki depends on Poppler (or so the GitHub says). Unfortunately, it only specifies how to get it on macOS and Linux, not Windows.
A quick googling turned up nothing too promising. Does anyone know how to get Poppler on Windows for ScraperWiki?
Other answers have linked to the correct download page for Windows users but do not specify how to install them for the uninitiated.
Go to this page and download the binary of your choice. In this example we will download and use
poppler-0.68.0_x86
.Extract the archive file
poppler-0.68.0_x86.7z
intoC:\Program Files
. Thus, the directory structure should look something like this:
C:
└ Program Files
└ poppler-0.68.0_x86
└ bin
└ include
└ lib
└ share
Add
C:\Program Files\poppler-0.68.0_x86\bin
to your systemPATH
by doing the following: Click on the Windows start button, search forEdit the system environment variables
, click onEnvironment Variables...
, underSystem variables
, look for and double-click onPATH
, click onNew
, then addC:\Users\Program Files\poppler-0.68.0_x86\bin
, clickOK
.If you are using a terminal to execute poppler (e.g. running
pdf2image
in command line), you may need to reopen your terminal for poppler to work.Done!
Poppler Windows binaries are available from ftp://ftp.gnome.org/Public/GNOME/binaries/win32/dependencies/ -- but note that those aren't quite up-to-date.
If you're looking for Python (2.7) bindings (as this question's tag suggests), I requested them in the past via this bug report. A couple of people apparently managed to produce something, but I haven't checked those out yet.
As for a more recent (python bindings unrelated) poppler Windows binaries Google result, see http://blog.alivate.com.au/poppler-windows/
Finally, there's the brand-new (and currently very frequently updated) PyGObject all-in-one installer (mainly aiming to provide PyGObject-instrospected Gtk+3 Python bindings etc. for Windows), so if that's what you're looking for, go to http://sourceforge.net/projects/pygobjectwin32/files/?source=navbar
With anaconda installed on windows one can simply execute:
conda install -c conda-forge poppler
Download Poppler Packaged for Windows
https://github.com/oschwartz10612/poppler-windows/releases
I threw together a quick repo with the latest Poppler prebuilt-binaries packaged with dependencies for Windows. Built with the help of conda-forge and poppler-feedstock. Includes the latest poppler-data.